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Having the Sony drivers and an aftermarket XQD card reader just was not cutting it. I got a Sony XQD card reader on Ebay and combined with the Sony drivers (free from Sony) it now works like a champ...

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I got up before the sun and went out to the beach, about a 5 minute drive and set up for some sunrise images. I used a 1º Spotmeter to get my starting exposure. I knew I would need at least a 16x graduated ND filter to hold the sky because I wanted to use a long...

Happy Thanksgiving all! I went out to shoot a sunrise at the beach this morning, got some great 8 second images. I get back to process them and realize that the SD card was still in the computer, all the images were on the XQD. Crap! My computer, even with the Sony driver installed, does not...

I was shooting some birds on the railing of our deck today. The light was dwindling to I was down to ISO 1600 and 1/160sec @ f/11 with the "Beast", 600mm f/4 ED IF AIS Nikkor, and the dof was still paper thin at that distance. This little Chickadee came into view and so I quickly focused and...

For those wanting a very creative watermark, I suggest you visit https://photologo.co/. They did a dynamite job on mine. You get a total of 4 files, both high and low resolution .png's in white and black on a transparent background. You just bring up the file in PS, and move it to your image and...

None better, can't wait to break open this bottle! All comments welcome

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I spent three days completely reworking my website in preparation for going live on Monday with my portrait business. Please do me a favor and look at my website all comments positive and otherwise will be greatly appreciate it! scottmurphyphotography.org Thanks in advance

Does anyone know if there is a metal replacement memory card door for the Nikon D850? My plastic one is fine right now, but with as much use as it is getting rignt now, it would be a lot comfortaing to have one out of metal. Although plastic ones are fine for amateur/consumer level cameras, but...

I guess by DSLR standards, a 2013 camera body is getting "long in the tooth" but here is the proof that it is not necessarily the case. I was at Huntington State Park today and as I was leaving, an Osprey with a small fish landed in a tree right in front of me. With the DX crop, my 600mm f/4 ED...

The bad news is that I had to resign my job as a Clinical Microbiologist due to health reasons. Over the past few months I noticed a marked increase in forgetfullness and an inability to recall recent things. I had both a CT and MRI done and unfortunately, there has been a noticeable atrophy in...

Viewfinder courtesy of Photoshop of course. The F2 is still my favorite camera of all time. Yes it is big, heavy and noisy, especially with the MD-2 attached but it was still brilliantly designed and built like a tank. Mine is circa 1975 and it is still going strong as is the motor drive

Murrells's Inlet, SC The tree to the right is pretty spooky looking too!

The D850 and my "Beast"; 600mm f/4 ED IF AIS Nikkor, here 1 stop down This is a 100% crop (screen shot from PS CC) from the original image. This snowy egret was about 50' away. No sharpening at all, just some slight manipulation of the high values to bring out more texture in the downy...

I have a card reader with slots for both an XQD and SD card. The computer recognizes the SD card with no problem but will not recognize the XQD. The same for Windows Explorer when I connect the D850 directly to the computer. I have to use the import function to copy the files to the hard drive...

Brookgreen Gardens is a botanical and animal park that was established in 1931. It also has over a hundred bronze statues throughout the grounds. I went out for a few hours today and shot some wildlife. There are snowy egrets all over the place I came upon a Barr Owl Apparently there...

Sorry for the crappy photo. I have longed to have one of these lenses (15mm f/3.5 AIS Nikkor) for many years and I finally took the plunge and got one. It is superlatively sharp on the D850 and completely rectilinear, no barrel or pincushion distortion at all. It will come in very handy for...

After 7 years of dedicated service and countless images, I finally upgraded my D700 to a D850. 90+% of the features on this camera I will never use, but the image quality is stunning and I am hoping it may be the last DSLR I ever buy. The days of the D700 are far from over, however, it will...

If you have been on this site for several years you have no doubt seen several images of Lynnsey. She is bar none my favorite model to work with. But you have never seen her like "this", or as I am fortunate enough to see her. I was bored and was thinking of something to do so I decided to have...

There is a very large park literally right across the street from the hospital where I work. I pass this pond, which is about 3-4 acres ± every day after work and it is filled with Lotus flowers. I spent the last 2 days after work photographing it. Below are a few images from the past 2 days...